"Truly exquisite," replied Brown.
"And Isola Bella is most beautiful," suggested Gray.
"Dear me! dear me!" approvingly assented Brown.
"How high is the statue of San Carlo Borromeo?" asked Gray.
"About sixty feet," answered Brown.
"It's a wonderful prospect from his eye," said Gray.
"Whose eye?" asked Brown.
"San Carlo Borromeo's," replied Gray, whose mind instantly suspected that he had caught the adversary, and who followed up his advantage vigorously and suddenly. "Of course you went up San Carlo?"
"Up San Carlo? You mean the church at—"
"Oh no! the statue on Lago Maggiore."